PHP Developer in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Member since July 25, 2014

Menno is a seasoned full-stack developer and software architect. His skillset is broad but centers around architecture​ and development of ​web applications​ and ​APIs​, mainly in ​PHP and Laravel​. He loves solving complex problems with a well-thought-out architecture, performant database structure, and clean, readable code.

Designed various database models for internal websites and the desktop application.

Developed a WYSIWYG website builder that generated a flat file website from the workflow components in the database.

Built a pop-up image editor with full undo/redo functionality.

Technologies: Visual Basic, C, Perl, PHP, MySQL

Software Developer

1999 - 2001

Unisys

Developed custom call center software on-site at telecom companies throughout Europe, such as KPN, Belgacom, Mobistar, Blu Telecom, and Swisscom.

Created touchpad, caller ID, and other components reusable on other projects.

Worked with Genesys and Lucent phone APIs.

Interfaced with BSCS billing systems.

Created a thin client for call center agents, based on ActiveX components.

Technologies: Visual Basic, C++, Oracle

Experience

Best Buy "Pass the present" Facebook App (Development)

In 2011, Best Buy's big Christmas prize giveaway had Facebook users unwrap virtual presents and pass them along to a friend. The lucky winners are those who remove the last layer of wrapping paper from a present.

This Facebook app took Silver in the Community Engagement/Retail category of the CMA awards.

The new corporate website for Taseko Mines (a Canadian mining corporation employing more than 450 people) shows off Taseko's four mining properties and provides investors with up-to-date information.

Key for this project was to implement beautiful HTM-based animations, pixel-perfection on mobile devices while still supporting Internet Explorer 6.

Where do New Zealanders Eat Pray Love? (Development)

A social promotion website for the Hollywood movie "Eat Pray Love", built using vanilla JavaScript and the Google Maps API.

Visitors can show where they eat, pray, and love by dragging one of each pin onto the map. These locations are saved for future visitors to discover.

Donotlink.com (Development)

This is a service that allows people to link to questionable sites without giving these sites the search engine boost that their link would otherwise give.

Search engine bots are passively and actively blocked from discovering the real target URL. When linking to dubious sites, using donotlink.com ensures that the target site does not get any search engine benefit.